Andrei Munteanu, 18, of Washington, D.C., was selected as a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for his earth and space sciences project in celestial mechanics.
http://www.sciserv.org/sts/63sts/winners.asp

As published in Time and in online news,
George Soros fights to get Bush out in the 2004 presidential elections. He is already supporting the Democrats with $15M.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/11/13/2003075626

http://www.weforum.org/gcr2003
Growth Competitiveness Index 2003:
Romania is on position 75 among 102 countries,
down from the position 67 in 2002.
Business Competitiveness Index 2003: Romania is on position 73 among 95, down from the position 67 in 2002.
Some other rankings in Growth Competitiveness 2003:
Finland 1
USA 2
Germany 13
Estonia 22
France 26
Hungary 33
Poland 45
Bulgaria 64
Romania 75

The report is realized by the World Economic Forum. For 2002-2003, it ranks 82 countries. The topmost country is Finland followed by the Unided States. Romania is on position 72, after countries like Namibia(#53), Colombia(#59), Bulgaria(#68), Ucraina(#70), Vietnam(#71); close to the bottom of the list. On the other hand, on the same page we can find a report submitted by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Romania which gives

Dan Dumitru Ciobanu, suspected of writing a variant of the Blaster worm, can get a maximum of 15 years in prison under the romanian cyber-crime law, more than twice the maximum sentence for rape. from news.yahoo.com: "We have had this debate that maybe the Romanian law is too tough. But it's alright to be like this," Romanian MP Varujan Pambuccian, who co-wrote the law, told Reuters. "We intended to make it tough." The Romanian law may be the toughest

SEATTLE -- Microsoft said Tuesday it will acquire antivirus technology from a Romanian software company and develop its own antivirus product, stepping into a market it has long ceded to others specializing in software security. Microsoft signed an agreement to buy the intellectual property and technology assets of antivirus software and consulting firm GeCAD Software of Bucharest for an undisclosed amount. Some of the company's software developers